Untrusted .mf files were parsed with no path validation, so an entry like ../../etc/passwd reached filepath.Join against the checker's base path and mfer check could stat and read outside it. ValidatePath ran only when building a manifest. It now runs on every entry as the manifest loads, so every consumer is covered. The whole manifest is rejected on the first bad entry instead of dropping it, which could hide files from a check; the error wraps errInvalidManifestPath and names the path.
Disclosure: a path that is not valid UTF-8 is refused earlier, by the protobuf string decoder, so that error does not name the path.
Model: opus-4-8 (implementation); fable-5-1 (summary)
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